Wash Your Way To Awesome Watercolor Art

Explore wet-in-wet building techniques, including washes, layering, bleeding, and semi-dry edges. Draw a simple building with perspective and light shadows.

Learn to elevate a simple wash into a variegated watercolor building study by mastering timing, value control, and pigment thickness, while layering blues, ochres, and reds.

Learn to work with wet and wet watercolor by adjusting timing, applying thicker paint for shadows, and creating variegated washes through iterative practice, while embracing accidents to achieve loose results.

Explore simple wet-in-dry building techniques, compare wet-and-wet and dry layering, and use negative space painting to tighten or loosen a watercolor barn scene.

Master variegated washes by building from simple wet-in-wet layers to mixed colors with hard and soft edges, exploring layering, color variation, and letting the medium bleed for expressive watercolor art.

Build value gradations by layering light to dark washes with wet and dry techniques to create depth and focus on value over color.

Learn to create complex value gradations in watercolor by building on a light, variegated wash, using layers, wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, and value interpretation.

Guide students through critiques that balance wet-dry washes, encourage organic color flow, avoid parallel strokes, and connect shadows to the building for dynamic watercolor art.

Paint a simple rose using wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry watercolor techniques, pre-wet the paper, layer color, and create soft edges for a creative interpretation.

Master wet-in-wet rose painting by building a simple bloom, controlling water and pigment for soft and hard edges.

Master a hybrid wash for roses by blending wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, leaving dry patches and layering pinks, ochres, greens, and crimson for loose floral detail.

Explore traditional and unconventional watercolor washes, including hybrid washes, through three demos that blend wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, encouraging creative subject choices and the watercolor magic in art.

redo your past watercolor pieces by using intentional washes to craft gradient skies, variegated building washes, and a focal point, while exploring how the medium shapes the subject.

Learn a direct wash method for a cafe scene, using wet-on-wet bleeding, local color, and dry layers to build shadows, negative space, and depth while preserving white paper highlights.

Master wet-in-wet washes to shape a simple scene, guiding value and light while letting watercolor magic reveal loose, negative-space forms and subtle reflections.

Explore advanced watercolor washes, wet-on-wet blending, and value control to develop more descriptive florals and buildings, mastering soft edges, color mixing, and shadow connections.

Review final critiques to refine watercolor washes by keeping the tops of buildings light and transparent, and by emphasizing value gradations and careful edge control.

Explore washes to simplify watercolor painting, manipulating washes and using different techniques to enhance your subject matter while remembering what the medium can do.